METHOD APPLIENCE AND COLLECTION OF INFORMATION IN RESEARCH ABOUT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Cover Image

PRIMJENA METODA PRIBAVLJANJA PODATAKA U ISTRAŽIVANJU ZLOČINA POČINJENIH TOKOM ORUŽANIH SUKOBA
METHOD APPLIENCE AND COLLECTION OF INFORMATION IN RESEARCH ABOUT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Author(s): Ermin Kuka
Subject(s): Criminal Law, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Methodology and research technology, Criminology, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Pravni fakultet - Univerzitet u Zenici
Keywords: research; methods; data acquisition; crimes against humanity and international law; prosecution;

Summary/Abstract: Crimes committed during armed conflicts represent empirical social occurrence which is crucial to be researched both - theoretically and empirically. Since it is about empirical social occurrence, mostly used methods are empirical methods for acquiring data. This is usually done because information gathered must be adequate, true, and correct since in order to be useful in researching and processing commanders and culprits of those crimes. That is why applying this method is crucial in acquiring data in this research of crimes, since its core is full scientific research of that social occurrence, but also further steps in research and court process. In this process we can see appliance of next methods of acquiring information in this crime investigation: document analysis, questioning, observation, experiment, case study, biographic method. It is a general conclusion that using this method of acquiring data helps in complete seeing and constructing an image of crimes committed and culprits that are partially or fully responsible for such inhumane acts, incriminated by international law and national legislation.

  • Issue Year: 13/2020
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 175-190
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bosnian